DZIEWANOWSKI, Mikolay Matthias "Kola" 1843-1929

DZIEWANOWSKI, WALBRIDGE, CHAPMAN, SWENSON, MARSHALL, BRACKEN, MCKOWN, WOOD, BOOTH, BISHOP

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Date: 8/20/2012 at 16:28:00

Mikolay Matthias ”Kola” Dziewanowski – December 10, 1843 – June 14, 1929

VETERAN IS DEAD AT NORA SPRINGS
KOLA DZIEWANOWSKI, DESCENDANT OF NOBILITY, SERVED IN CIVIL WAR

Nora Springs, June 15 – Kola Dziewanowski, veteran of the Civil War, died at his home here Friday. He served four years in the union army, being honorably discharged at the end of the war in 1865. He was a third degree Mason and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

He is survived by his widow, a sister, Mrs. F. E. Walbridge of Wisconsin; a daughter; Mrs. A. P. Chapman, Jr., Victoria, British Columbia; a son; Win, Rochester, Minnesota; a grandson Franklin E. Chapman, a great grandson, William E. Chapman, a granddaughter, Suzanne Chapman, all of San Francisco, California; a grandson, John C. Chapman, a great grandson, John T. Chapman of Seattle, Washington; a grandson Thomas Dziewanowski; a granddaughter; Mrs. Sidney Swenson, both of Belmond; a niece; Mrs. Florence D Marshall, Upland, California; and a nephew Harry Dzir, Woodsocket, South Dakota.

A son, Ralph, died in 1909. His brother, Gilbert died in 1927, in California and a sister, in infancy, on the old homestead in Wisconsin.

Mikolay Matthias Dziewanowski was born December 10, 1843 in Pulaski, Iowa County, Wisconsin. On his father’s side he descended from the Count and Countess Dziewanowski, of Podolia, Poland whose vast estates were confiscated by the Russian government during the Polis Revolution of 1830 and 1832 and the sons of noblemen banished.

On his mother’s side he descended from William Bracken, Church of England Episcopalian, who, emigrated to America in 1684 and settled in Delaware and from Gilbert McKown, Scotch-Irish Presbyterian, who came to America in 1840 and settled in Virginia. Thomas McKown, father of Gilbert lived to the advanced age of 114 years.

Mikolay’s boyhood was spent on his father’s farm near, what is now Avoca, Wisconsin. At the age of 17 years, war changed school to battles.

In 1872 Miss Elizabeth Wood of Kilbourn, Wisconsin and Kola were united in marriage. She died in 1883 at Avoca, Wisconsin.

In 1895 he was married to Mrs. W. H. booth of Emmetsburg Iowa, who died in September, 1924.

On November 27, 1925, he was united in marriage to Mrs. Carrie Bishop of Nora Springs who survives him.

Funeral services will be held at the Baptist Church, Nora Springs, Sunday afternoon at 1 o’clock, the Rev. H. A. Crumb officiating.
Burial will be in the Park Cemetery, Nora Springs, Iowa

Mason City Globe Gazette, June 15, 1929